{"id":12897,"date":"2013-07-09T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=12897"},"modified":"2013-07-18T21:23:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T21:23:21","slug":"album-review-lord-dying-summon-the-faithless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-lord-dying-summon-the-faithless\/","title":{"rendered":"LORD DYING – Summon The Faithless (2013) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

LORD DYING
Summon The Faithless<\/strong><\/span>
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\nRelapse (2013)<\/span>
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Portland, Oregon\u2019s Lord Dying boast one of my favourite album covers of the last few years. The quartet was formed in 2010 and Summon The Faithless<\/em> is the debut, eight-track opus from this merry bunch of doomsters. Thankfully, it\u2019s not the usual stoner metal that is infecting the shores of the world; instead there is a degree of angst and pain amidst those weighty yet feverish riffs, giving the record a rather lively, albeit panicky feel.<\/p>\n

The \u201cdoom metal\u201d tag is certainly rather restrictive for some bands, and that applies here, because as soon as you\u2019re engulfed by the raging flames of the first track, \u2018In A Frightful State Of Gnawed Dismemberment\u2019, you\u2019re at once taken aback by the raucous vocals and energetic, albeit tempestuous riffs.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, the opening chords and raise-the-roof bombastic drums suggest another stoner band, but things soon change with just over a minute gone and we\u2019re treated to an almost classic heavy metal riff and hammering drum. While groove-based, there are hints of weighty grunge and even gloomy thrash, especially in those wild vocals, and it\u2019s no surprise that they\u2019ve previously played with bands such as Unsane and Down.<\/p>\n

Considering they are a relatively young band, Lord Dying have an incredibly mature sound, especially in those driving structures and gritty melodies \u2013 the twin riff attack of E. Olson (who is also responsible for the raw vocals) and C. Evans is one to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n

Strangely, despite their direct approach, the sound of Lord Dying is a hard one to pin down; they seemingly lurk in the basement of slower, darkly-tinged thrash, boisterous doom, and traditional albeit fuming metal. For instance, the title track adopts a grunge-tinged Slayer<\/a> riff, while \u2018Greed Is Your Horse\u2019 has a more scathing, colder guitar lick coupled with a slower melody, whereas \u2018Dreams Of Mercy\u2019 is an irritated punk-laced slab of muscular doom, again powered by those bruising vocals of E. Olson.<\/p>\n

Mind you, of all the tracks on offer, it\u2019s the monstrous \u2018Perverse Osmosis\u2019 that leaves the biggest bruise; it oozes in on a massive riff and despicable yowl, bringing to mind the once glorious strains of Tad, who owned this type of hurtful harmony on their underrated 1990 Salt Lick<\/em> opus.<\/p>\n

I can see why these guys would appeal to fans of Down, because like Phil Anselmo\u2019s troupe they\u2019ve found a peculiar corner which allows them to be at once accessible yet inhospitable. One moment Lord Dying rope you in with another gargantuan riff, but the next they are so acerbic that listening can become something akin to being hit by a baseball bat.<\/p>\n

Regular doom metal fans may find Lord Dying a little too grotesque, but for the metalhead in all of us Lord Dying fill a need, and that need is to work up a sweat, because after this opus you\u2019ll be wringing the flannel out. Good stuff, if a little tough.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LORD DYINGSummon The Faithless Relapse (2013) Rating: 7\/10 Portland, Oregon\u2019s Lord Dying boast one of my favourite album covers of the last few years. The quartet was formed in 2010 and Summon The Faithless is the debut, eight-track opus from this merry bunch of doomsters. Thankfully, it\u2019s not the usual stoner metal that is infecting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-lord-dying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12897"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12914,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897\/revisions\/12914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}